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It is with sad news that I report the passing of great Filipino film director and producer, Eddie Romero. It is reported that Romero passed away Tuesday night at the age of 88. The director was reportedly in and out of the hospital since May 18 due to...
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It’s been 15 years since Quentin Tarantino’s first film, Reservoir Dogs, exploded onto screens at the Sundance Film Festival. And it’s been 13 years since Pulp Fiction took the Palme d’Or at Cannes. So it may strike the 44-year-old filmmaker as a bit amusing that he’s...
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From The Quentin Tarantino Archives This is a transcript of an interview originally posted at ABS/CBN Date: August 12, 2007 QT recently attended the Cinemanila Film Festival in The Phillipines. While there he was interviewed about his films, his favorite films...
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When discussing the international reputation of Filipino cinema, artists like Lino Brocka and Lav Diaz often take up most of the oxygen. However, Eddie Romero stands as one of the first Filipino filmmakers to take stock abroad. With a...
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The Blood Island series encompasses four low budget horror ventures made in the Philippines by directors Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. The four films, Terror is a Man, Brides of Blood, Mad Doctor of...
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TALES OF BLOOD ISLAND Kickstarter: “Body horror director and producer of the Re-Animator zombie franchise, Brian Yuzna; Sam Sherman of Independent-International Pictures Corp; and Dave Sehring of Drive-In-Sanity Films have teamed up for another BLOOD ISLAND...
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Aguila (1980) dir. Eddie Romero 3h30m long and I was glued on the screen throughout the whole movie. Easily my favorite FPJ picture. Truly, a masterful work of art by Eddie Romero. Merong mga pelikula na after mo panoorin eh, mabilis mo langad agad malimutan. At meron...
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Twilight People (aka Island of the Twilight People) is director Eddie Romero’s second attempt at an Island of Dr. Moreau type story without actually acknowledging it (the previous film being Terror is a Man). Shot in the Philippines and...
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Eddie Romero had been working in the Filipino film industry for a decent stretch of time – mostly as a writer, penning comedies and comic book flicks – when he received a call from doctor-turned-actor Gerardo “Gerry” de León. De León had read one of...
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The Blood Island series encompasses four low budget horror ventures made in the Philippines by directors Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. The four films, Terror is a Man, Brides of Blood, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, and Beast of...
